Desktop YouTube app ‘Minitube’ seeks new icon

Minitube developer Flavio Tordini is searching for a new icon for his desktop Flash-free YouTube player.

In a post on the Minitube website Flavio has announced a Minitube icon design contest, stating that he always had the feeling the incumbent icon ‘could be made better’. The requirements in designing a new icon are as follows: –

Requirements

The icon must be in SVG format and render correctly with Inkscape.

The icon license must be Debian-compatible.

I’d like to keep the “blue screen” concept because users are used to it. But this is not a strict requirement.

It’s ok to start from the current SVG icon

What you win

The incentive – other than having your icon displayed on thousands of desktops worldwide – is a credit in the ‘About’ box of Minitube, as well as the release notes and on the official blog plus5 free licenses for the Mac version.

Icons should be sent to flavio.tordini@gmail.com before midight November 30, 2010.

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